Essays audiobooks

Why We Read

By: Shannon Reed

Narrated by: Paige McKinney

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile, and Thurber Prize Semifinalist

We read to escape, to learn, to find love, to feel seen. We read to encounter new worlds, to discover new recipes, to find connection across difference, or simply to pass a rainy afternoon. No matter the reason, books have the... Read more

How to Live Free in a Dangerous World

By: Shayla Lawson

Narrated by: Shayla Lawson

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“Phenomenal.... A memoir that opens into the world, with brilliance, courage, and elegant prose.... This is a book to read, read again, and remember.”—Imani Perry, New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award winner South to America

Poet and journalist Shayla Lawson follows their National Book Critics Circle finalist This Is Major... Read more

I'll Just Be Five More Minutes

By: Emily Farris

Narrated by: Emily Farris

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A hilariously-honest, heartwarming essay collection about life, love, and discovering you have ADHD at age 35
 
Despite being a published writer with a family, a gaggle of internet fans, and (most shockingly) a mortgage, Emily Farris could never get her sh*t together. As she saw it, disorganization was one of her countless character flaws—that... Read more

Atlas Linguae: The Layers Of Language Behind Everyday Life

By: Studio Ochenta

Narrated by: Luis López

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Why does a McDonald's slogan, no matter the language, make you want to buy their product? Is that subtitled movie you just watched truly better than the dubbed one? How do we communicate gender-neutral pronouns? And, most importantly... Are you sure you sent the right emoji just now? From the hit language podcast produced by Studio Ochenta comes... Read more

Crossing America

By: Jonas Deichmann, Martin Waller & Carsten Polzin

Narrated by: Jonas Baeck

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Das neue Abenteuer des "deutschen Forrest Gump". Bei 45 Grad durch die Mojave-Wüste. Über fast 4000 Meter hohe Gebirgspässe in den Rocky Mountains. Mitten durch die Häuserschluchten von Millionenmetropolen. Und hunderte Kilometer entlang endloser Maisfelder in Nebraska. Dieser Herausforderung stellt sich Extremsportler Jonas Deichmann. Quer... Read more

Passports and Pacifiers

By: Kaitlyn Jain

Narrated by: Kaitlyn Jain

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

“A parenting memoir and travel guide that will inspire families to have new experiences.” — Kirkus Reviews “Conversational, lively, humorous... Enjoyable and memorable.” — The BookLife PrizeThe true story of two crazy parents traveling with four small children…on a budgetFollow a young, naïve baby-wearing family as they travel around the world.... Read more

Does My Dog Love Me?

By: Graeme Hall

Narrated by: Graeme Hall

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Have you ever wondered what your dog is really thinking?

Our dogs mean the world to us and as owners we do our best to make sure they feel happy and loved, whilst also keeping them in line when needed. But wouldn’t it be so much easier if we spoke the same language and could ask what they were thinking or feeling?

In his... Read more

The Forgotten Chef

By: Phil D. May

Narrated by: Brad Derry

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Embark on a transformative culinary journey with "The Forgotten Chef," by Phil D. May narrated by Brad Derry, after three decades navigating his own food odyssey, invites listeners to explore their unique culinary path. This audiobook serves as a mentor, challenging and guiding a new generation of chefs to understand their passion for... Read more

Looking Up

By: Casey Roman

Narrated by: Casey Roman

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Losing her TV news career and her home in the same year wasn’t on Casey Roman’s 2018 Bingo card. Neither was sleeping in Walmart parking lots and nearly deciding to end her own life. But the world is full of blind curves, and salvation comes in unusual forms, like a cargo van. What began as a three-week road trip to erase her “news lady” image... Read more

Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung Band 2

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by: Volker Braumann

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Arthur Schopenhauer - Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung Band 2 – Die Ergänzungen zum ersten Buch Mit ebenso großer Klarheit und Eleganz wie im 1. Band seines Hauptwerks setzt Arthur Schopenhauer nun auch im 2. Band von "Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung" seine pessimistisch-voluntaristische Metaphysik des Lebens fort, wobei er, direkt Bezug... Read more

Cool Food

By: Robert Downey Jr. & Thomas Kostigen

Narrated by: Robert Downey Jr., Thomas Kostigen, various nar...

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLERIn Cool Food, celebrated actor and philanthropist Robert Downey Jr. and New York Times bestselling author Thomas Kostigen team up to discover how we can erase our carbon footprints—one bite at a time.What we eat matters—to us, and to the planet. Cool food is a game-changing new food category and... Read more

Travels with a donkey in the cevennes

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Jason Smith (Male Synthesized Voice)

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes" is a classic travel memoir written by Robert Louis Stevenson. The book recounts Stevenson's journey through the Cévennes region of France in 1878. The author embarked on this trek with a donkey named Modestine, and the narrative captures the landscapes, people, and challenges encountered during the journey. Read more

Our Ghosts Were Once People

By: Bongani Kona (ed)

Narrated by: S K Tsubane, N Mayet, A Pearce, C Cosa, M Borai...

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

‘I would get out of the car at every shopping centre and want to ask the stranger walking by with their trolley: “Why are you still shopping? Someone I love has died.”’ – Dela Gwala
Death is a fact of life, but the experience of grief is unique to each of us. This timely collection brings together a range of voices to offer reflections on death... Read more

The Souls of Black Folk

By: W. E. B. Du Bois

Narrated by: Mark Bowen

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The Souls of Black Folk is a 1903 work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology and a cornerstone of African-American literature. The book contains several essays on race, some of which the magazine Atlantic Monthly had previously published. To develop this work, Du Bois drew from his own... Read more

A Hitch in Time

By: Christopher Hitchens

Narrated by: Hannibal Hills & James Wolcott

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In this outstanding collection, essayist Christopher Hitchens's works are shared–a must-have for Hitchens completists seeking a further understanding of his brilliant mind.

Anthologized here for the first time, A Hitch in Time is a choice selection of Christopher Hitchens’s finest reviews, diary entries, and essays–along with a smattering of... Read more

The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism

By: Vladimir Lenin

Narrated by: Mark Bowen

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (Russian:  Три источника и три составных части марксизма ) is an article written by the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin and published in 1913. The article was dedicated to the thirtieth anniversary of Karl Marx's death. Read more

Fascism: What It Is And How To Fight It

By: Leon Trotsky

Narrated by: Mark Bowen

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. He was one of the leaders of the Russian October Revolution, second only to Vladimir Lenin. During the early days of the Soviet Union, he served first as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army and People's Commissar... Read more

Dialogue with a Somnambulist

By: Chloe Aridjis

Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Renowned internationally for her lyrically unsettling novels, PEN/Faulkner Award winner Chloe Aridjis now presents her first collection of shorter works, with an introduction by Tom McCarthy



Chloe Aridjis's stories and essays are known to transport readers into liminal, often dreamlike, realms. In this collection of works, we meet a woman guided... Read more

The Book of Pet Love and Loss

By: Sara Bader

Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio, Janina Edwards, Gary Furlong &...

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful collection of quotations by writers, leaders, and legends on the pain of losing a pet and overcoming grief.

An animal’s love is deep, uncomplicated, unconditional, and forgiving. “Affection without ambivalence” is how Sigmund Freud described the connection. “No matter how awful the day, or how awful I am behaving at any given moment,... Read more

A Radiant Birth

By: Paul J. Willis & Leslie Leyland Fields

Narrated by: William Sarris & Kellye A. Saunders

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

"In Advent we prepare for the coming of all Love." —Madeleine L'Engle



"At the birth of Jesus, an event of cosmic significance by which we humans still mark our calendars, the invisible and visible worlds come together." —Philip Yancey



"Help us to realize, as those who love and believe in you that we, too, are pregnant with Christ by the power of... Read more

Encounters with the Archdruid

By: John McPhee

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses—on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and they encounter each other on mountain trails, in forests and rapids, sometimes with reserve,... Read more

Ways of Eating

By: Merry White & Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

Narrated by: Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

What we learn when an anthropologist and a historian talk about food.



From the origins of agriculture to contemporary debates over culinary authenticity, Ways of Eating introduces listeners to world food history and food anthropology. Through engaging stories and historical deep dives, Benjamin A. Wurgaft and Merry I. White offer new ways to... Read more

El Príncipe

By: Nicolás Maquiavelo

Narrated by: Martín Quirós (voz sintética)

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

El Príncipe de Nicolás Maquiavelo es una obra clásica de la literatura política que ha perdurado a lo largo de los siglos. Publicado por primera vez en 1532, este tratado se ha convertido en una guía fundamental para los líderes y gobernantes de todo el mundo. En El Príncipe, Maquiavelo ofrece consejos y estrategias para aquellos que desean... Read more

Érase una vez en tu cerebro

By: Eduardo Vara

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Un apasionante viaje de la mano de la neurociencia y la ficción. El libro que tienes en tus manos te explicará qué pasa en tu cerebro cuando descubres una historia y por qué te entusiasmas con algunas y no con otras. ¿Cómo puede ser que simples letras te transporten a lugares remotos, desconocidos o incluso inexistentes? ¿Por qué hay personajes... Read more